Free speech, expression, and association.U.S. Appeals Court CASSETTE TAPES MAIL Driver v. Groose, 273 F.3d 811 (8th Cir. 2001). A state prison inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. sued to recover for the alleged violation of her consititutional rights in connection with prison officials' censorship censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. of a music-cassette tape that she had ordered through the mail. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants and the appeals court affirmed af·firm v. af·firmed, af·firm·ing, af·firms v.tr. 1. To declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true. 2. To support or uphold the validity of; confirm. v.intr. . The appeals court held that the inmate, who was a member of a racial minority, could not recover on an equal protection theory, given the complete lack of evidence that she had been treated differently from similarly situated similarly situated adj. with the same problems and circumstances, referring to the people represented by a plaintiff in a "class action," brought for the benefit of the party filing the suit as well as all those "similarly situated. white inmates who had attempted to receive through the mail and uncensored, the same explicit-lyric tape that she had ordered. (Missouri) |
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